Category: 3: Culture

It appears that the Orlando Museum of Art was duped. In 2022, they hosted an exhibition of the work of the late artist Jean-Michel Basquiat. Basquiat, who died in 1988, was a New York graffiti artist and Neo-expressionist painter. To...

The Washington Post has been keeping a tally of the number of people shot by the police in the United States. Based on their count, 8,166 people of various races and ethnicities have been killed since 2015. Over 1,000 were shot...

Culture is universal. Every country, religion and group in the world has some form of socially learned and shared ideas, behaviors and material components of a society. Culture encompasses a wide range of physical artifacts that represent components of society,...

Two-year-old Ayaansh Kumar went on a $2000 shopping spree. How could a toddler go shopping you ask? By playing with his mom’s cellphone. Mother, Madhu Kumar, loaded a bunch of furniture into her online Walmart shopping cart. However, she, like...

As the semester draws to a close attention turns to upcoming celebrations. For some, this includes Hanukkah, Christmas and Yule. For others their focus is on Kwanzaa, Boxing Day, and Omisoka. Regardless of which festivity you partake in, it is...

There is a massive crisis at the Texas/Mexico border. An estimated 12,000 immigrants are camped under the Del Rio International bridge seeking asylum. Food and water are scarce, and weather conditions range from extreme heat to tropical storms. Most people...

Often when we think about culture, the socially learned and shared ideas, behaviors and material components of a society, we focus on material culture, the physical artifacts that represent components of society. From this perspective, culture is often synonymous with...